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Northward of Las Minas, the more regular northerly ranges predominate: from this place to near Polanco, we meet with the coarse-grained mixture of quartz and feldspar, often with the imperfect hornblende, and then becoming foliated in a N. and S. line with imperfect clay-slate, including laminae of red crystallised feldspar with white or black marble, sometimes containing asbestus and crystals of gypsum with quartz-rock with syenite and lastly, with much granite.

Miguel Pou, Consul of H.M. the Emperor of Germany, Luis Cambiaso, Consul of H.M. the King of Italy, Jose Manuel Echeverri, Consul of H. Catholic M. the King of Spain, Aubin Defougerais, Consul of the French Republic, Paul Jones, Consul of the United States of North America, Jose Martin Leyba, Consul of H.M. the King of the Netherlands, and David Coen, Consul of H.M. the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain; the citizens licentiates in medicine and surgery Marcos Antonio Gomez and Jose de Jesus Brenes; the civil engineer Jesus Maria Castillo, director of the work in this cathedral; the chief sexton of the same, Jesus Maria Troncoso, and the undersigned notaries public, Pedro Nolasco Polanco, Mariano Montolio and Leonardo Delmonte i Aponte, the first also being the acting notary of the curacy and the second the titular notary of the municipal council of this capital.

Poor Salcedo tried to resist, but was captured, hurried by a friend from one camp to another to keep him from being shot, and at last foully murdered. Polanco did not enjoy his triumph long.

But I do not wish to bring my dark robe among your gay dresses." "O Miss Revere!" "Tell me if you think it possible for one who is absolutely alone in the world to be happy, after having once been so with others?" "I cannot imagine being alone, any more than I can imagine a sound, without being there to hear it," answered Anna. "Poor Mr. Polanco, in the Darien expedition!

I stayed ten weeks at Maldonado, in which time a nearly perfect collection of the animals, birds, and reptiles, was procured. Before making any observations respecting them, I will give an account of a little excursion I made as far as the river Polanco, which is about seventy miles distant, in a northerly direction.

As soon as the Spanish forces retired from Santiago the revolutionists, on September 14, 1863, proclaimed the restoration of the republic and set up a provisional government under the presidency of General Jose Antonio Salcedo. The other generals accused Salcedo of lack of energy in pushing the war and on October 10, 1864, deposed him and made General Gaspar Polanco president in his stead.

Monte Video Excursion to R. Polanco Lazo and Bolas Partridges Absence of Trees Deer Capybara, or River Hog Tucutuco Molothrus, cuckoo-like habits Tyrant- flycatcher Mocking-bird Carrion Hawks Tubes formed by Lightning House struck. July 5th, 1832 In the morning we got under way, and stood out of the splendid harbour of Rio de Janeiro.

Castillo, Civil Engineer M. A. Gomez, Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery J. J. Brenes, Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery The chief sexton, Jesus Ma. Troncoso A. Licairac M. M. Santamaria Domingo Rodriguez Manuel de Jesus Garcia Enrique Peinado Federico Polanco Lugardis Olivo P. Mr. Consuegra Eujenio de Marchena Valentin Ramirez, Jr.

The Dean of the Assembly is Pedro Oropesa; next to him comes Ludovico Zapato; then, in regular order, Fernando Tellez, Garcias Moxica, Lorenzo Carvajal; Toribio Santiago sits next to the last-named, and after him come Juan Lopez, Palacios Rivas, and Ludovico Polanco.

The marble and granite alternate repeatedly in apparently vertical masses: some miles northward of the Polanco, a wide district is said to be entirely composed of marble. It is remarkable, how rare mica is in the whole range of country north and westward of Maldonado.